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Beginning Sounds: Poem

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson plan, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular beginning sound.
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Letter Sound and Letter Combination Accuracy, Sound Search Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. In this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt...
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Long Vowel Search and Sort

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice identifying long vowels.  In this vowel lesson, students read a story and find long vowel words that fit their pattern. Students then sort their word under the correct long vowel pattern.
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Sounding out accuracy, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. For this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Students read the word off the card and stretch it out.
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Sounding out fluency, Relay Race

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice reading. In this fluency building instructional activity, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it...
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Reintroduce -wh

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonetics by participating in a letter combination activity with their class. In this word sound activity, students identify the sound "wh" and discuss words where the sound is utilized. Students practice repeating words...
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Introduce qu-

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice saying and reading words beginning with qu. In this phonics instructional activity, students review the sound that the letter combination qu creates.  Students play a pronunciation game to ensure their...
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Reintroduce /kn/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading words with the kn pattern.  In this phonics instructional activity, students review the sound kn makes.  Students then play a game to reinforce the correct use of the kn spelling pattern.
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Reintroduce /ou/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the "ou" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students review the letters that make the sound in the word "cloud" and then practice making the sound. Students identify the words on the board that...
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Say and Spell Vowel Digraph Board Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students say and spell vowel digraphs by playing a board game. In this vowel digraphs lesson plan, students make a single sound with 2 vowels.
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The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts instructional activity designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with...
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November - Poetry

For Teachers 1st
First graders respond to poetry through a group activity. They interact with rhythm and tempo in poetry through an oral presentation. They experiment with choral speaking. They discuss Thanksgiving family traditions.
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Rock the Boat

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders play a spelling game. They draw a card that shows two ways to divide a word into syllables. They are to choose which one is divided correctly, either A or B. They move along the game board as they choose correct answers.
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Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice...
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They...
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Ballet

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify word families and demonstrate a variety of ballet moves. They listen to the book "Angelina on Stage," and observe and demonstrate three ballet moves. Students then match a family word with other rhyming words,...
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Oddity Rhyming Strips

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice identification of rhyming words. Students compare/contrast pictures by identifying rhyming sounds in them. Students place strips on the pictures. Students share comparisons with each other.
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Ehhh...Could You Repeat That?

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They recite an e tongue twister and practice writing the letter e. They spell e words using Elkonin letter boxes and...
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What Do Seals Eat?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners recognize the ea=/E/ correspondence in spoken and written words. They participate in a group letterbox lesson. In groups of two, they practice reading with each other, taking turns reading one page at a time, identifying the...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete the first column of a KWL chart with information that they know about caterpillars. They listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while focusing on what caterpillars eat. They clap out...
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The Itsy Bitsy Spider

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this sequencing worksheet, students read a poem about a spider. Students cut out 6 rhyming word cards. They then cut out 2 picture cards and put them in order to show the story events.
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-- Family Word Slide (Circular)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze the "--ake" rhyming pattern by making a word slide. Students cut slits in the laminated word ending piece and slide the beginning consonants strip to make 12 new words.
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Hey Diddle Diddle

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about the cat and the fiddle. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.